(TK x Appalachia) x '88G13HP. Good shit.
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Yeah, this is what I havenât really had in a while. Would be cool to see that again, I prefer sticky / gooey strains to the powdery, dry or oily feeling trichomes. Iâve had a moderately gooey strain on one of the recent runs (think it was BT, not sure), though it wasnât standout to me. I still have memories of an ultra gooey strain that I had back in ~2003.
Feeling good about this lineup at the moment, thanks again everyone!
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Goji F2 - the pheno that got away due to my absent-mindedness
Well this is by far my favorite Cannabis that Iâve consumed this year from a medical perspective. Clear, enhanced focus, mentally stimulating yet deeply relaxing effects. Very similar to the mother which has great uplifting anti-depressant and calming anti-anxiety properties. The uplifting effect is less pronounced than the mother, but the calming effects feel noticeably stronger. Feels like getting a mental massage.
Overall Iâm feeling like I actually prefer this to the mother and think itâs equal or better on every trait of significance. Good aroma and taste and highly desirable calyx-to-leaf ratio. I noticed there are seeds in the buds likely from a neighboring (2017) Goji F2 with intersex issues. Thinking that I may even explore those at some point in the distant future, who knows.
Also is the brightness better on these pictures or should I still go higher?
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So it exists in there after all! The hunt is on
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The flowers look (and sound) awesome, looking better than the previous pics. Is there some reason you canât use a brighter background? Like something to do with the software or something?
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Thanks! Going to try to take some later on a white piece of paper and see how they look.
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White background tests , only edit was cropping. Various light angles / iso, shutter speed & fstop settings :
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Glad to hear you found a good one! Apologies if you already mentioned this, but did you clone this one youâre reviewing?
The brightness of the pics you posted on RIU was better imo for medium rez shots, when comparing with the medicine mountain background. Iâd love to see full rez pics so I could zoom those trichs. 
I actually really like the white background when your color correction doesnât change it to an off-white or give it a red/blue/whatever cast. I prefer to shoot with diffuse natural lighting, such as from an opaque skylight. Thatâs how Iâve taken my best pics, but I donât have that situation anymore since we moved.
Hereâs an example taken with a phone camera:
Itâs a little blown out, but I prefer that to it being underlit.
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No, I was going to attempt a re-veg but completely forgot up until the second I chopped the whole plant down haha. Not worried though, I can always try to find something similar again or even better explore something new to me. Iâm just glad that it showed me thereâs something in there that I really like. Have enough other stuff hoarded at this point that I need to make my way through anyways and mothers just hinder that effort.
Yeah, I need to mess around with the white balance on camera I think, or start using the raw files instead of JPG. Your pictures look incredible to have been just taken with phone.
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That 91 skunk va x ssdd is one that I would choose to explore.
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If something shows up in the f2s everyone is hunting through maybe it will make itâs way back to you
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Closeups with TG6 camera
Raw nikon shot with white balance adjusted, still a bit pink in background⌠:
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You could print out a square of medium grey to use for a white balance card.
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Those closeup shots are fucking amazing, wish I could get ones like those. In the âwhite backgroundâ test shots, the fourth pic looks the best. Iâm not sure what you did differently there, but yeah, I think that one looks the best of the group. Theyâre all kinda âshadow-y,â though, which on the one hand doesnât look the greatest, but on the other hand, itâs like,âThis nug is casting a big shadowâŚâ haha! Kinda cool.
I donât even know that you have to be so âextremeâ haha, going from the super-dark background to the white background. I like red, been using the cover of that book âCherryâ (paperback edition) and also this red towel that I have on our outside table that I set the seedlings on. I dunno. Like I said, I just snap a shitload of pics and hope a couple turn out okay. Still easier than the old-school method, though. Could you imagine? Just taking roll after roll after roll of pics and then having to develop them all in the darkroom, hoping that some of them came out okay? So much wasted film⌠haha.
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I think this one is the best out of the ones on the white back ground, as far as color and white balance. It looks the best on my MacBook at least.
Iâm just starting to play around with RAW files too, so I canât offer any guidance there.
I donât think the oneâs on the Bodhi/MSSC stickers look bad either, but could maybe use a tad more diffused light coming from the same angle as the camera. Iâve been thinking about getting a light box, or making one for bud shots. Not sure if you have instagram or not, but I always like to get inspired by erik.nugshots, notcurt_ice, and greengenesgarden. Just hope you donât have GAS, gear-acquisition-syndrome, after looking at their gear - cuz youâll be broke in no time!
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Got to see a few pictures from greengeneâs before IG required a login⌠Some ridiculously nice shots. I think youâre right about the GAS though, too much looking will probably push me towards acquiring a greater magnification lens aha. For the Nikon Z series Iâm mostly limited to Z mount lenses (1:1 only) unless I were to get an FTZ converter or Laowa lens so I should be safeâŚ
Yeah same, take like 100 shots at diff ISO,shutter-speed, f/stop holding the flash in different positions and then try to select the best. Orange background and box of dogshit bags test shots :
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I like that look.
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I really need to get that ring light attachment for the TG5. Killer shots
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Yeah! That first shot looks real good. The orange background makes the nug kinda âpopâ or whatever (not a fan of the âpoop bagsâ shot, but thatâs just me; Iâve got a really weird thing about any kind of reference to, uh, poop haha, canât even stand the mention of it)(I hated even typing that word just now).
Iâm no professional photographer, but I think the background really does make all the difference. Those shots are still kinda âshadowy,â though. Have you considered just natural light? Like outside in the sun? Or even shaded, but outside? I was relatively happy (as happy as Iâm ever gonna be, anyway haha) with the recent bud shots I took outside, the pics of the C. Gold x DE#1 and the Ancient OG x AfPak. Iâm pretty sure Iâm just gonna take all of my shots outside now, always liked those ones the best.
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